I'd be for adding SRV records as long as we make it extensible so that others can add support for whatever services they want as well. As SRV records can be a bit problematic with larger clusters.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Andy Wenk <andyw...@apache.org> wrote: > I never heard of SRV and had a overview look at the RFC. I believe this would > be of great value including it and make it easier for new users to get a > cluster setup running. > > +1 > > Cheers > > Andy > > -- > Andy Wenk > RockIt! > > Hamburg / Germany > > GPG public key: > https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4F1D0C59BC90917D > >> On 7 Oct 2016, at 19:08, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> This sounds useful, +1 >> >> Best >> Jan >> -- >> >>> On 07 Oct 2016, at 03:57, Adam Kocoloski <kocol...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Lately I’ve been thinking about how to ease the onramp for users to get a >>> clustered CouchDB setup running. I think the Kubernetes work shows a lot of >>> promise. One of the aspects of that work is the service discovery element; >>> each node in a cluster should be able to automatically find its peers and >>> connect to them. Kubernetes accomplishes this using SRV records; a DNS >>> lookup for a given named service will return the FQDNs of all the live >>> members of the “Pet Set”. >>> >>> The SRV approach is enough of a standard[1] that I wonder if we ought to >>> code for it directly in mem3. It’d eliminate the need for a “sidecar” >>> container in Kubernetes deployments and I can imagine that it will prove >>> more generally useful. The idea would be for mem3 to check if the CouchDB >>> node is running in distributed node, and if it is, fire off a DNS lookup on >>> the domain name, then attempt to connect with any other targets that are >>> included in the record set in the DNS response. >>> >>> What do you think? If no one objects I’ll file a JIRA and see what we come >>> up with. >>> >>> Adam >>> >>> [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2782 >> >> -- >> Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: >> https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/ >> >
